Shining a spotlight on our services for women

People sometimes ask me, does San Francisco AIDS Foundation provide services for women? The answer is yes!

San Francisco AIDS Foundation is proud to offer comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and housing programs for women, men, and gender non-conforming people. Our Harm Reduction Center provides women with access to safer injection supplies, HIV testing, and counseling services. We also provide case management and rental subsidies to women living with HIV which helps in linking and retaining them to HIV treatment. And we offer culturally-specific social support for women through weekly peer-led groups like El Grupo and TransLife.

These programs are critical to our mission of ending the HIV epidemic as women in San Francisco experience some unique health risks compared to men. Nearly half of women in San Francisco living with HIV were infected through injection drug use, compared to 20% of men. Additionally, trans and cis-gender women living with HIV achieve lower rates of viral suppression than men (64% and 65% compared to 73%), and cis-women have lower rates of five-year survival after an AIDS diagnosis than men (81% to 87%).

We believe that San Francisco can be the first U.S. city to end the HIV epidemic. Every day, we provide free prevention and care services to people in hard-hit neighborhoods—and advocate for them to public officials—because we can envision the day when we beat HIV.

San Francisco AIDS Foundation is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation which has been granted tax exempt status under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3). Our Federal EIN is 94-2927405 and our California corporation number is C1241510.